We are a small consultancy, and we work with a wide variety of other people and organisations as necessary. Our client always has a single point of contact – with Footprint Ecology – yet we can draw on a wide range of expertise to build a team ideally suited to the work required. Examples of the people we have worked with can be found within our links section. Our core staff include:
Durwyn Liley BSc, PhD, IEEM - Director
Durwyn’s doctoral research, completed in 1999, was the first study to address the population consequences of human disturbance for a bird species. Human disturbance and access have remained key research throughout his conservation career. Since leaving academia, Durwyn has worked as a warden with the RSPB, as a project manager for the RSPB, as a research ecologist for Butterfly Conservation, as an ecologist for Birdlife International and as a conservation officer for English Nature. He co-founded Footprint Ecology in 2005 as a way of using his skills and experience to contribute directly to nature conservation while integrating his environmental principles.
Birds have always been an over-riding passion since childhood and Durwyn has worked on a wide variety of species and bird conservation projects – including work in Canada, Pakistan, Indonesia, Paraguay, Israel, Bolivia, Fiji and New Zealand. Durwyn is a keen all round naturalist with a wider interest within the UK that encompasses cetaceans, hoverflies, dragonflies and plants.
Durwyn acts as a scientific advisor on access and disturbance for Natural England and is an external advisor for HLF. He has recently reviewed papers for Oryx, Bird Study and Ibis.
John Day BSc, PhD, MBiol, Cbiol, IEEM, FRICS - Director
John is a chartered biologist, a member of the IEEM and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has had considerable experience of practical conservation land management at both ground and executive levels, and as a warden, reserve manager, land agent and ecologist. He has been employed as a senior warden, reserves manager and head land agent for the RSPB over the last thirty-five years. John has considerable experience of heathland issues.He is the ecological adviser on land management issues for lowland heaths, mires and uplands for the RSPB and has represented the RSPB at a number of public inquiries concerning development adjacent to heathland. He has published over 33 scientific papers, reports and proceedings.
Joanna Sharp, BSc, DIC, PhD
With nine years academic research experience, Joanna has worked on a range of projects including developing spatial models of pl
ant distributions (Imperial College London), work on trends in macro-lepidoptera (University of York), use of GIS analysis to explore the choice of roost sites by gulls in England (Central Science Laboratory) and the Farm Scale Evaluations of GM crops (CEH).
Joanna has recently been working for the Urban Heaths Partnership in Dorset, conducting visitor survey work and is a member of the British Ecological Society. She brings technical competence in computer programming and wide experience of GIS to the team.
Joanna has led GIS training for Footprint Ecology. Other work at Footprint Ecology has included analysis and modelling visitor patterns within the New Forest (for the New Forest National Park) work on the Frome Valley for Purbeck District Council and analysis of nightjar numbers on heaths in Dorset and the Thames Basin (for Natural England).
Jenny Goy - Administrator
Jenny joined Footprint Ecology as part time administrator in 2007. She has more than 20 years experience in administration, with almost 15 of those working for conservation in Dorset.
A keen dog walker with a passion for the environment, Jenny is responsible for our office and financial administration, implementing best practice and green purchasing.